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Yes I noticed the same thing, which is why I decided to try and get an answer as to whether it was intentional or not. Personally I prefer sharper + more noise versus softer + less noise. There are lots of ways to reduce noise in an image, and Photo Ninja has them too with Noise Ninja, but its...

Would be nice if a version of Photo Ninja became the bundled software for Fuji X, but its never going to happen. Despite being the best at 'unlocking' the files, it's far too 'dangerous' to let photographers loose with. They might fail to apply the appropriate noise reduction, and we can't have...

Some interesting comments from Jim Christian, the developer of Photo Ninja. Photo Ninja - Some comments from Jim Christian, the developer.

The SOUNDIMAGEPLUS blog: The John Millich Sigma DP2 Merrill L-Plate Grip I haven't posted here for a while, but thought I would add this. I've just put this piece on my blog, with lots of pictures, about the John Millich L-Plate grip for the DP2 and DP1. As you will see its a very positive...

Biased! What on earth are you talking about? "Beloved NEX-7"?? I guess these days you can't post anything without somebody trying to jump on it to make a point. A simple post about the weights of various combinations and I get this. I'm afraid I'll take my "bias" somewhere for a while then. In...

I checked some weights. Fuji X-Pro 1 is 450g 35mm f/1.4 is 187g so 637g. Sony NEX-7 is 353g Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 is 225g so 578g Panasonic GX1 is 318g PanLeica 25mm f/1.4 is 200g so 518g Leica M9 is 589g Voigtlander 35mm f/1.4 is 200g so 789g Fuji X100 + lens is 445g Nikon D5100 is 565g 35mm f/1.8...

Well yes. Maybe for a Serious Compacts market. If you would agree that Leica users are one part of that target market, then they (and I as an ex-Leica user) are used to hauling around some pretty chunky pieces of metal. The Leica M8 and M9 aren't light and many of the current Leica lenses aren't...

I'd like to think so, and I'm actually in no hurry, as I'm very comfortable with what I'm using. I just find it strange that they should post the samples they did. They are not bad by any means, but expectations, certainly mine, had been raised by the build up. They have been claiming this new...

There are some very small Voigtlander m-mounts, the 35mm and 40mm f/1.4, 12mm f/5.6 & 15mm f/4.5, which are FF lenses. Entirely manual of course. I tried to find out whether the lenses have AF motors, but couldn't. I suspect not, given their size. I would mention that not everybody, myself...

And with a sensor 6x as big underneath.

I'm very much in agreement with what you write. I too was surprised at no NX20 announcement, and seeing the potential that the sensor in the NX200 has, I was looking forward to a camera that I might find a bit more user friendly. Do you get the impression, as I do, that Samsung are more...

Anything from Sigma Foveon sensors, the long gone much lamented Kodak SLR/n, and both the Leica M8 and M9. Incidentally all cameras with no AA filter. It is odd. You'd think they would post absolutely the best they have. Yes too many times. Agreed, I was too. I only decided to buy one when...

Interesting. They are really quite disappointing samples. The broach at ISO 200 didn't exactly knock my socks off. I realise its a jpg. but I would have expected a lot sharper than that. As Armanius suggested, very reminiscent of the Pentax K-5.

Gave the UK price as £1000 for body - £500 each for the lenses.

And we all thought (well at least I did!) that Fuji were going after Panasonic, Olympus, Sony etc. However it seems that are going after Leica! This is an unbelievably ambitious camera, crammed full of new technology, including a new type of sensor array. Dpreview wrote:- "the X100's image...